Zshares: Little Lupe Thundercat Rap Jam Vol. 1
Charles Hamilton – “Where’s My Fucking Genesis?“
Spree Wilson – “Word”
Quasi-hipsters stay rapping under their government name. Should I thank Kanye West for this? Or Obie Trice? Either way, two of them here indulge in a sixteen bit strain of Thundercatrap that seems slightly more genuine than sampling European trance or hand me down nostalgia via the Clipse. I imagine most of these kids actually grew up on video games.
Charles Hamilton of Cleveland Harlem (though his myspace said otherwise) has nothing to do with this guy and spells the word psychedelic with an “o”. But, as a still-own-a-Saturn motherfucker (posse on dorkwatch), I feel a need to acknowledge what may be the first time someone has actually spit over a Sonic The Hedgehog beat. Well, Del, another Sega apologist, probably did at some point, but I always found his forays into video game rap less childhood nostalgia and more old man talking mod chips type creepy.
Speaking of Del, Atlanta’s Spree Wilson raps a little like his unsigned and imaginary half brother Unicron. I guess that is a better look than autotune and this is kind of hot. No ID is on the boards and it is an uncharacteristically blippy beat for the Resurrection architect. What he lost his copy of Power of Zeus?
So, I’ve been gone for a few days. Has anyone heard The Carter 3? Why is nobody talking about it on the internet?
June 3rd, 2008 at 8:26 pm
its weird, but old charles sounds like one of the kids from your lunchroom cipher in high school, somewhat horrible yet still charming, can’t help you with the Carter 3 though….
June 3rd, 2008 at 9:39 pm
I mean, this game…is just that fuckin’ toasted…
June 3rd, 2008 at 9:42 pm
magno, jokaman and friends “sega flow”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9H5CzvSrU8M
June 3rd, 2008 at 11:56 pm
oh fuck how did i miss this.
June 4th, 2008 at 12:17 am
nerd/skater/regular rap is nothing new…its been around forever and it wasnt a hit in the 80s and it aint gonna last in the 08s trend, fad, flash in the pan, call it what u want…the rap game is wide open for hard lyrics to dominate again
June 4th, 2008 at 12:51 am
i like how the asian dudes name is Taro and it just makes no fucking sense to him…. hahaha bubble tea anyone?
June 4th, 2008 at 1:48 am
youve got to find a check writer to furnish you a trip to Atlanta so you can see cats like Spree live.
June 4th, 2008 at 2:21 am
I assume the bit about C3 was sarcastic, but actually I’ve yet to see any credible blogger do a writeup. In particular, Breihan’s rapturous review is yet to drop. I actually haven’t heard it yet, though I did check out “Mr. Carter” – a decent song, but not even seeing Black Republicans as far as hyped duets go.
June 4th, 2008 at 5:15 am
Maybe keeping your government name has something to do with building up your net persona – so that you can transfer back and forth between rap music, mogul moves, and blog fame without confusing fans and potential sponsors.
fuck this song sucks. I’m listening to it right now…jesus christ.
blame heron preston.
June 4th, 2008 at 7:36 am
>Should I thank Kanye West for this?
I think you should thank Keith Murray or Erick Sermon !
June 4th, 2008 at 9:12 am
jokaman is a really good rapper.
I never heard spark dawg & k reata before, but they pretty good too.
June 4th, 2008 at 9:15 am
and charles hamilton has a song produced by dre (well, that’s xhat I read, it doesn’t sound like it is)
http://www.zshare.net/audio/130774170d4adcad/
June 4th, 2008 at 11:27 am
cocoa brovaz, super brooklyn:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxSXaLfBnYQ
i know it’s not sega but come on now…best video game rap ever. even the sound effects are on point
June 4th, 2008 at 11:43 am
No one is talking about ‘Carter 3′ on the internet because Lil Wayne is not as dope as you blog dudes think, he is mad overrated plus no one cares…I saw the same shit in the late eighties its called new jack swing, Lil Wayne will come and go and not receive any real propers from the kids who know. As for Del he’s never been afraid to experiment with styles and go against the grain…don’t sleep on ‘the eleventh hour’ for all new school jerks that think hip hop started in the south think again. Out!
June 4th, 2008 at 12:53 pm
Wow, that first one is so bad I only made it one minute deep. The second one has good verses, especially considering that’s such a strange beat to rhyme over, but how did someone like No ID decide to use a cartoon children after helium chorus, my ears burn every time it comes on.
June 4th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
Dre or not, that other Hamilton track is pretty good.
Though I still cringe when rappers say the word blog.
June 4th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
“credible blogger”
LOL
June 4th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
Well, you’re sort of credible. I didn’t mean to imply Breihan was. Decent writer though.
June 4th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
so did wayne orchestrate the death of “static major” to help boost record sales?
June 4th, 2008 at 8:32 pm
no one’s talking about the carter 3 because a) it seems to be harder to find than the typical megahyped leaked release, b) the track ordering (at least of the version i have) differs somewhat from the official tracklistings i’ve seen, and/or c) it’s so weird no one seems to be able to make heads or tails of it, really
June 4th, 2008 at 9:07 pm
“so did wayne orchestrate the death of “static major” to help boost record sales?”
not funny.
June 5th, 2008 at 12:56 am
It is kind of an unfortunate way to go out on mr. major’s part. I wouldn’t want people to remember me for Lollipop.
June 5th, 2008 at 6:35 pm
‘The Carter III: Throw Some AutoTune On It’ is better than I thought upon first listen. I was feeling it more the 2nd and 3rd times… The bangers for me are ‘3peat,’ ‘A Milli,’ ‘Dr. Carter,’ ‘La La,’ ‘Nothin on me’ (with Fabolous actually coming through with a good verse… Weird for the ‘08! What’s with that dude that makes me not want to like him? Is it that insecurrr lilt he adds in his voice as his gimmick? Like he sounds like he’s in trouble for throwing the baseball through the window?), ‘Tie My Hands’ and ‘Misunderstood’ get moody and it helps the album… The ‘Lollipop’ remix on this album has dude who produced the dime-a-dozen beat is all over it telling us how we should pay him to make us a hit… I bet he’s at parties saying ‘I did the Lollipop remix’ and then he hopes everyone assumes he’s talking about the GOOD one with Kanye, not this lame one. We see you dude.
Anyway, my favorite line on there right now is the adlib during ‘Shoot Me Down’: “I swear this tea is at a real good temperature right now…”
June 5th, 2008 at 9:54 pm
I thought Charles Hamilton was from Harlem?
June 6th, 2008 at 12:58 am
DJ Jubilee & KC Redd “do the mario” & all those crank songs, notably “do the yoshi on em”
June 6th, 2008 at 7:37 am
benefits’ mario rap is still the all time classic.
and yo that parappa the rappa album was bangin
June 6th, 2008 at 7:37 am
ps the del song is hot fiyah
June 7th, 2008 at 3:02 am
carter three is dope. dope beats
June 7th, 2008 at 3:25 am
I’m just going to assume that the above commenter shitting on Chops has some sort of a learning disability, and probably like the last two Common records.
August 6th, 2008 at 12:53 pm
Yo you heard Charles Hamilton diss Lupe Fiasco a couple times on his mixtape?? Hahaha…peep game
http://www.thelaf.net/wp/2008/08/06/charles-hamilton-vs-lupe-fiasco-diss/
November 24th, 2008 at 8:52 pm
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